Product catalogue
Geoscience Australia Landsat Fractional Cover Collection 3
Fractional cover data can be used to identify large scale patterns and trends and inform evidence based decision making and policy on topics including wind and water erosion risk, soil carbon dynamics, land management practices and rangeland condition.
This information is used by policy agencies, natural and agricultural land resource managers, and scientists to monitor land conditions over large areas over long time frames.
Fractional Cover (FC), developed by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program, is a measurement that splits the landscape into three parts, or fractions:
- green (leaves, grass, and growing crops)
- brown (branches, dry grass or hay, and dead leaf litter)
- bare ground (soil or rock)
Digital Earth Australia (DEA) uses Fractional Cover to characterise every 30 m square of Australia for any point in time from 1987 to today.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-03-22
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-07-06T07:20:51
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145498
Identifier
- Codespace
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Digital Obejct Identifier
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Lymburner, L.
PSCD Internal Contact
- Purpose
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Fractional cover provides valuable information for a range of environmental and agricultural applications, including:
- soil erosion monitoring
- land surface process modelling
- land management practices (e.g. crop rotation, stubble management, rangeland management)
- vegetation studies
- fuel load estimation
- ecosystem modelling
- land cover mapping
- Status
- Pending
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Resource provider Place, Space and Communities Division
External Contact Point of contact Glitsos, B.
Space Division Internal Contact
- Spatial representation type
Spatial resolution
- Level of detail
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30m x 30m
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
))
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1987-03-04
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Weekly
Resource format
- Title
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Protocol
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
- Name of the resource
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
- Description
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Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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EARTH SCIENCES
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- Keywords
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land and vegetation
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- Keywords
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green vegetation
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- Keywords
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non-green vegetation
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- Keywords
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bare soil
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- Keywords
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- OnLine resource
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Link to data
Link to data
- Distribution format
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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Nationally consistent information about fractional cover dynamics is essential to addressing a range of natural resource challenges. These include land management practices, air quality, soil erosion, rangeland condition and soil carbon dynamics.
Fractional Cover (FC) provides a consistent classification which will be an important foundation for land cover mapping and monitoring across Australia. It is a resource for natural resource managers, land surface process modellers, carbon modellers, rangeland managers, ecosystem scientists and policy makers.
The fractional cover algorithm was developed by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program (JRSRP) and is described in Scarth et al. (2010). While originally calibrated in Queensland, a large collaborative effort between The Department of Agriculture - ABARES and State and Territory governments to collect additional field data has enabled the calibration/validation to extend to the entire Australian continent.
1390 field data sites were used to train the model, and a separate 1565 sites were used to evaluate the model accuracy.
FC was made possible by the collaborative framework established by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) and collaborative effort between state and Commonwealth governments.
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/608dd66a-efae-4ab5-859d-99e5e30bc36d
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Glitsos, B.
Space Division Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
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DEA Fractional Cover (Landsat) - Geoscience Australia Landsat Fractional Cover Collection 3
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/145498
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-06-17T01:21:33
- Date info (Revision)
- 2021-06-17T01:21:33
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3
- Title
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551